Notable Quotes

WE get instructions in writing and we haven’t seen the change in black and white. – A manager at Keetmanshoop regional Home Affairs office hotly defended the 24-month re-entry visa for permanent residents fee of N$3 150, which he insisted was not the wrong information.

WE get instructions in writing and we haven’t seen the change in black and white. – A manager at Keetmanshoop regional Home Affairs office hotly defended the 24-month re-entry visa for permanent residents fee of N$3 150, which he insisted was not the wrong information. A considerable reduction in the re-entry visa for permanent residents fee has dropped to a mere N$690 in July this year but it has almost gone unnoticed by most of the public and even some officials in the Home Affairs and Immigration.

TEACHERS in the rural areas should be given a ‘bush allowance’, because they do not enjoy things such as electricity, transport, medical services and other things that urban teachers have access to. – The Namibia National Teachers’ Union’s (NANTU’s) Khomas regional chairperson Dankie Katjiuanjo said that the union was negotiating with Government to raise teachers’ salaries.

EVERYWHERE a person goes, you are told there are no jobs available. I know it seems like we complain all the time but the conditions we live in are not fit for humans whatsoever. – Havana resident Jimmy Mushabati says that the situation in Havana is getting worse with the years due to negligence of the people themselves and the inability of the government to provide employment.

From The History Books
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born October 7 1931) is a South African activist and Christian cleric who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Tutu has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, poverty and racism. Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and was inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society as an Honorary Member in 2001, by the University of Stellenbosch.